When is the right time to get involved with activities on campus?
Now, there are people who say “hey the first semester should just be about getting great grades, and you should wait to get involved”, but then there are those people who say “get involved do everything you possibly can, when you get there”. These people, however can become overly involved, and my suggestion is to pick one or two activities and get involved right away. That's why those orientations are so important, because there's usually an organizational fair. You should use Facebook getting in touch with people, do the things you want to do, because, too often it's too hard to get involved because you're too afraid of walking into a room where you don't know anybody. I'm on Facebook and I have thousands of Facebook friends, and if there's someone who you want to connect with, I'm cool to help you connect with those people. It's normal that these people are doing the things that you want to do and face book's great because you can just send them an email and ask them a question. If you want to get involved with one or two activities, you will then know someone there and it isn't so intimidating because you're not afraid of looking like a loser because you don't know anyone.